SPIRTS AND PASTIMES.
DIRT TRACK CYCLING. OPPERMAN BREAKS RECORD. {United Press Association.) fUy Electric Telegraph—Copyright, I i ADELAIDE, September 23, - / (Received Sept. 25, at 10 p.m.) ' Hubert Opperman broke the dirt track cycling record for 100 miles by covering the distance in 4hr 39imin, thereby clipping 23 minutes off the world’s dirt track record and 38 minutes off the Australian record. , ' RUGBY FOOTBALL. ‘ WEBT COAST DEFEATS JCELSON. , (Per United Prf>*. Association.) GREYMOUTH, September 25. Ihe vyest Coast Rugby rep' «sentatives to-day defeated Nelson by 11 points to v- , the game was largely a forward one, the Coast pack proving superior and keeping up a sustained attack. There was no score in the first spell. Tries were scored for the winners by Bell (2) and d. King, Bell converting one. For Nelson tries were scored by E. Snow and Smith.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20832, 26 September 1929, Page 10
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